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Thai Army investigators examine the site of where a bomb was detonated in the southern city of Pattani, in southern Thailand on May 10, 2017. More than 50 people were wounded on May 9 when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a civilian target in the troubled zone. Photo: AFP/ Tuwaedaniya

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Hypermarket blast presses insurgent demands in Thailand

by Jason Johnson May 11, 2017February 18, 2020

On May 9, suspected Malay Muslim insurgents bombed a hypermarket in the southern Thai town of Pattani, the latest escalation in an insurgency that since 2004 has ravaged the country’s predominantly Muslim southernmost region. The Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), the largest and most well-armed separatist group operating in the restive region, is widely believed to […]